ABDALLAH BENANTEUR PASSED AWAY ON DECEMBER 31, 2017.
Claude and France Lemand and the collectors friends of the great artist present their most sincere condolences to his sons Dahmane and Younes Benanteur, and are committed to continue supporting faithfully their father’s wonderful oeuvre.
‘ Born in 1931 in Mostaghanem, Abdallah Benanteur was brought up in an Algerian family and cultural environment, specifically enthralled by writing and illuminated manuscripts, by mystic Muslim poetry, by Andalusian music and songs. In 1953, he settled down in Paris, which he transformed into his own capital of life and creativity.
Impregnated by the Arab culture from his native Algeria, by the great European painting in museums across France and Europe, by the graphic arts and manuscripts from Europe, the East and the Far East, inspired by the poets from around the world, he managed to create his own personal and sublime works, producing lyrical landscapes infused with the light of his Mediterranean homeland and that of his adopted Brittany, as well as a transcendental light that transforms the memory’s landscapes in a paradise peopled by his beloved ‘chosen’ ones’.
(Claude Lemand)
Translated from French by Valérie Didier Hess.
